Sunday 31 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPEN UP BY CHRISTMAS (2019)

Gwen (Lindy Booth) is an auctioneer employed to downsize a magnificent estate in the run up to Christmas for the dour reclusive owner Alan Hawthorne (Vlasta Vrana).

The success of the clearance is vitally important as her commission would set her up to purchase the auction house.

The fly in the ointment however is the head of the cleaning crew Reed (Justin Bruening) who she had worked with on a previous occasion so there is some friction between them but working on the new project offers them a second opportunity to slowly resolve their issues.

So as the two uncover the house's treasures, they help an aging father to resolve his relationship with his estranged daughter, an unlikely couple find love and lead themselves to find their true feelings and move on to a loving future together. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MAKEOVER (2016)

 

In the run up to Christmas, TV presenter Kate Harper (Lori Loughlin) accidentally admits, live on air that she doesn’t like Christmas.

Due to the backlash from viewers and sponsors alike, she and producer and ex-college boyfriend Jack Brewster (Colin Ferguson) are sent to a small town in North Dakota to film a Christmas special in order to discover her Christmas spirit and repair Kates image,

As she embraces the Christmas festivities the Christmas spirit begins to change her life and along the way, she reconciles with her estranged father Michael (Michael St. John Smith), learns to enjoy Christmas again and falls in love with her former beau.


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BEST CHRISTMAS BALL EVER (2019)

 

Amy Michaels (Elisabeth Harnois) had planned a perfect Christmas in Chicago with her boyfriend, but those plans are ruined when he unexpectedly breaks up with her after telling her he has another girlfriend.

Not wanting to spend Christmas alone she decides to visit her half-brother Daniel (Samuel Hunt) who is in Vienna trying to track down relatives on his dad's side of the family.

Looking for new experiences she decides to take a ballroom dancing lesson and is paired with a very handsome European man named Lukas (Christian Oliver).

To use terpsichorean parlance, they get off on the wrong foot, but after initially clashing, their partnership becomes more harmonious and they end up spending the day together and an attraction forms between them but will this new found magnetism lead to love or another broken heart.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOVE & GINGERBREAD (2020)

 

On the day New York stockbroker Sam Wallace (Vanessa Lengies) starts a new job she discovers that the company have been taken over and her boyfriend Will (René Escobar Jr) is her new boss.

So, she does the only thing she can do, she quits both of them and returns home to upstate New York to spend Christmas with her mother Tammy (Maria Ricossa) and reconnects with her high school sweetheart Noah Fitzpatrick (Corey Sevier) who she left behind in order to pursue her business career.

After some initial frostiness on his part he eventually thaws and they are able to rekindle their former love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FALLING IN LOVE AT CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.

They agree to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after the party, but they are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no way of finding each other.

Miranda is a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset to find that her app has been sold to another company which in turn merges with a rival and she has to work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday gift-giving app.

Her rival turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa but neither of them know so sparks fly between them but as they work together, they develop unexpected feelings for one another even before they discover their previous interactions.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES: PART TWO (2020)

Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.

However, she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily spending Christmas with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather be back home, where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.

So, Kate decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an early flight back home to Boston.

When she is sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being followed by Jack, she is tricked by an evil Christmas Elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a driver, to get onto a shuttle, which Jack sneaks on to as well.

But they aren’t going to the airport, instead they are transported to the North Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) who takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) is waiting.

Of course, Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as bait to attract Santa so he could sneak into the Village.

Once inside he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil ends into action.

So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHARM BRACELET (2020)

 

In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.

One day Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a donated coat, and she naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with many bespoke Christmas themed charms, was donated in error.

Holly makes it her mission to discover the owner and return the bracelet before Christmas.

Reluctantly she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews (Brendan Penny), who wants to assist her as he wants to write about her his "Christmas Hero" story.

The combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his investigative reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the love story it represents.

But by the time they track down the owner they have written a love story of their own.